Word: porcelian
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...make your paint stick" to how to do your own electrical wiring ("and when to get someone else to do it"). Yet, even in these "techy" passages, Owen stays interested and interesting. He explores the Keeler & Long paint factory to find our how paint is made, where porcelian blocks and round stones whine and grind pigments which pour into thousand-gallon mixers, and he visits the first American Sawmill, (Jamestown, 1625) to learn about the origins of lumber...
...during the film. Coppola presents the titillating moments of mob murders, like when Dixie and Vera watch the impulsive Dutchman stab his rival Flynn with a turkey carver during dinner. The blood sprays the walls, and covers the ivory tablecloth, while drops fall from the chandelier onto Lane's porcelian cheeks. Although scenes like these have dramatic bang, they never build to anything substantitive, instead disappearing into Coppola's cinematic labyrinth...
Blodgett, a member of the Hasty Pudding and the Porcelian Club, has been on the track team for three years. A Glee Club member for four years, he was a junior usher, as were Ravenel and Father...
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